stopping

1. VERB 停止;停下
   If you have been doing something and then you stop doing it, you no longer do it.
   1. Stop throwing those stones!...
      不要再扔那些石头了！
   2. He can't stop thinking about it...
      他没办法不再想这件事。
   3. I've been told to lose weight and stop smoking...
      我被告知要减肥并戒烟。
   4. I stopped working last year to have a baby...
      我去年因生小孩辞去了工作。
   5. Does either of the parties want to stop the fighting?...
      双方中没有一方想停止战斗吗？
   6. She stopped in mid-sentence.
      话说了半句她就停下不说了。
2. VERB 阻止;使中断;使停止
   If you stop something happening, you prevent it from happening or prevent it from continuing.
   1. He proposed a new diplomatic initiative to try to stop the war...
      他提出了一项新的外交计划以尽力阻止这场战争。
   2. If the fire isn't stopped, it could spread to 25,000 acres...
      如果大火不被扑灭，它可能会蔓延 2.5 万英亩。
   3. I think she really would have liked to stop us seeing each other...
      我认为她本来真的可能不想让我们俩继续交往下去。
   4. He put the radio on loud to stop himself thinking about it...
      他把收音机的音量开得很大，好让自己不再想这件事。
   5. Motherhood won't stop me from pursuing my acting career...
      做了母亲并不会阻止我继续追求我的演艺事业。
   6. There's nothing to stop you from doing a bit of exploring further afield.
      没有什么会阻止你到更远一些的地方探险。
3. VERB (活动或过程)停下来，中止
   If an activity or process stops, it is no longer happening.
   1. The rain had stopped and a star or two was visible over the mountains...
      雨停了，山顶上有一两颗星星在闪烁。
   2. The system overheated and filming had to stop...
      系统过热，拍摄工作只好停了下来。
   3. The music stopped and the lights were turned up...
      音乐停止，灯光亮起。
   4. They're treating it like a game, a novelty. That's got to stop.
      他们把这件事当成了一个游戏，觉得很新鲜。不能再那样下去了。
4. V-ERG (机器等)停止运转;(使)停止工作
   If something such as machine stops or is stopped, it is no longer moving or working.
   1. The clock had stopped at 2.12 a.m...
      钟在凌晨 2 点 12 分时停了。
   2. His heart stopped three times...
      他的心脏曾 3 次停止跳动。
   3. Arnold stopped the engine and got out of the car...
      阿诺德关掉发动机，下了车。
   4. He stopped the machine and replayed the message.
      他关掉机子，重新放了一遍留言。
5. V-ERG (使)(移动着的人或车)停下;把…拦住
   When a moving person or vehicle stops or is stopped, they no longer move and they remain in the same place.
   1. The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint...
      那辆车没有在军方检查站停车。
   2. He stopped and let her catch up with him...
      他停下来，好让她追上自己。
   3. The event literally stopped the traffic...
      这一事件几乎让交通陷于停顿。
   4. The van was stopped at customs in Harwich.
      小货车在哈里奇海关被拦下了。
6. N-SING 停住;停下
   If something that is moving comes to a stop or is brought to a stop, it slows down and no longer moves.
   1. People often wrongly open doors before the train has come to a stop...
      人们经常在火车还尚未完全停好时就违规打开车门。
   2. He slowed the car almost to a stop.
      他放慢车速，车几乎停住了。
7. VERB 停下来(思考或解释)
   If someone does not stop to think or to explain, they continue with what they are doing without taking any time to think about or explain it.
   1. She doesn't stop to think about what she's saying...
      她都没有停下来想一想自己在说些什么。
   2. There is something rather strange about all this if one stops to consider it...
      如果停下来好好想想的话，就会发觉整件事情相当蹊跷。
   3. People who lead busy lives have no time to stop and reflect.
      忙忙碌碌的人们无暇停下来反思。

When an action comes to an end or stops, you can say that someone stops doing it. She stopped reading and closed the book. However, if you say that someone stops to do something, you mean that they interrupt their movement or another activity in order to do that thing. The 'to' infinitive indicates purpose. I stopped to read the notices on the bulletin board.
stops doing 表示停止做某事，如：She stopped reading and closed the book (她停止阅读，合上了书)。而 stops to do 则表示中断现在的行动或活动去做另一件事，to 引导的不定式表示目的，如：I stopped to read the notices on the bulletin board (我停下来去读布告栏上的通知)。

8. VERB 止于;结束
   If you say that a quality or state stops somewhere, you mean that it exists or is true up to that point, but no further.
   1. The cafe owner has put up the required 'no smoking' signs, but thinks his responsibility stops there...
      咖啡馆老板已经按规定贴上了“禁止吸烟”的标志，但是他认为自己的责任就止于此。
   2. The good news did not stop there...
      好消息还不止这些。
   3. Once you cross over the thin line to acts of lawlessness, who knows where it stops?
      一旦你越过雷池开始干违法的事，谁知道哪里是个头呢？
9. N-COUNT 车站;停车站
   A stop is a place where buses or trains regularly stop so that people can get on and off.
   1. There was an Underground map above one of the windows and I counted the stops to West Hampstead...
      其中一扇窗户上方有一张地铁线路图，我数了数到西汉普斯特德站共有几站。
   2. They waited at a bus stop.
      他们在一个公共汽车站等车。
10. VERB (旅程中)逗留，停留
    If you stop somewhere on a journey, you stay there for a short while.
    1. He insisted we stop at a small restaurant just outside of Atlanta...
       他坚持让我们在亚特兰大市外不远的一家小餐馆歇歇脚。
    2. It would be a crime to travel all the way to Australia and not stop in Sydney.
       如果不远万里去了澳大利亚，却没在悉尼稍作停留，那真是一种罪过。
11. N-COUNT (旅程中的)停留时间，停留地
    A stop is a time or place at which you stop during a journey.
    1. The last stop in Mr Cook's lengthy tour was Paris...
       库克先生漫长旅程中的最后一站是巴黎。
    2. Mack was driving down from Vermont, with a stop in Boston to pick Sarah up.
       麦克正开车从佛蒙特向南行驶，中途经停波士顿接上萨拉。
12. (风琴的)音栓
    In music, organ stops are the knobs at the side of the organ, which you pull or push in order to control the type of sound that comes out of the pipes.
13. PHRASE 不择手段;无所顾忌
    If you say that someone will stop at nothing to get something, you are emphasizing that they are willing to do things that are extreme, wrong, or dangerous in order to get it.
    1. Their motive is money, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
       他们的动机是钱，为了钱他们会不择手段。
14. PHRASE 全力以赴;竭尽全力
    If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you can to make something happen or succeed.
    1. New Zealand police vowed yesterday to pull out all the stops to find the killer.
       新西兰警方昨天发誓要竭尽全力抓到杀人凶手。
15. PHRASE 制止;阻止
    If you put a stop to something that you do not like or approve of, you prevent it from happening or continuing.
    1. His daughter should have stood up and put a stop to all these rumours.
       他的女儿早该站出来平息所有这些谣言。
16. PHRASE 做事很有分寸;懂得如何把持自己
    If you say that someone does not know when to stop, you mean that they do not control their own behaviour very well and so they often annoy or upset other people.
    1. Like many politicians before him, Mr Bentley did not know when to stop...
       和过去的很多政客一样，本特利先生做事也没分寸。
    2. You should know when to stop asking questions.
       你应该知道什么事不该问。
17. to stop dead → see: dead

1. Due to a security alert, this train will not be stopping at Oxford Circus.
   由于安全戒备的原因，该次列车在“牛津街口广场”站将不停留。
2. Stopping only briefly to regain her composure, she described her agonising ordeal.
   她只停顿了一小会儿让自己恢复平静，然后讲述了她无比痛苦的经历。
3. Stopping to rest, Pete shut off the flash.
   皮特关掉手电筒，停下来休息。
4. Once he made up his mind to do something, there was no stopping him
   一旦他下定决心做某件事，就没有什么能够阻止他。
5. By stopping smoking you are undoing most of the damage smoking has caused
   通过戒烟可以消除吸烟造成的大部分危害。
6. He zoomed through junctions without stopping and sped the wrong way down a one-way street.
   他停都不停地冲过交叉路口，然后错拐进了一条单行道逆向飞驰。
7. The Conservatives saw this as stopping the waste of ratepayers 'money.
   保守党人认为这是在遏制浪费纳税人的钱。
8. The moment she got to know the ropes, there was no stopping her.
   一旦她懂行了，就什么也难不住她了。
9. U.S. manufacturers may find the export boom stopping dead in its tracks.
   美国制造商将会发现出口热戛然而止。
10. He talks aimlessly without stopping.
    他东拉西扯，说个没完。
11. He went straight to New York without stopping anywhere.
    他直接前往纽约。
12. She never passes without stopping to say hello.
    她从这儿经过时没有一次不停下来问候一番。
13. He talks without stopping.
    他说个不停。
14. Stopping at nothing, the bandits killed, burned and looted.
    匪徒烧杀掳掠，无所不为。
15. Agreed stopping places means those places, except the place of departure and the place of destination, set out in the ticket or shown in our timetables as scheduled stopping places on your route.
    “约定的经停地点”是指除出发地点和目的地点以外，在您的客票或者我们的班期时刻表中列明作为您的旅行路线中预定经停的地点。
16. He works from morning till night, without ever stopping to rest.
    他一天到晚不歇闲。
17. He worked day and night without stopping.
    他日夜工作不停。
18. They talked and laughed without stopping for a long time.
    他们有说有笑，老半天没有住声。
19. He was rubbing his hands all the time as if he was washing them, and smiling without stopping.
    他一直在搓着手，好像是在洗手，并且不停地笑。
20. I vote for stopping.
    我建议停下。
21. These commands can be used to stop and start job queue devices thus stopping and starting job processing.
    可以使用这些命令停止和启动作业队列设备，从而停止和启动作业处理。
22. Starting and stopping applications.
    启动和停止应用程序。
23. In addition, unnecessary processing time and resources are being consumed starting and stopping the transaction.
    此外，启动和停止事务将消耗不必要的处理时间和资源。
24. This allows for remote starting and stopping.
    允许远程启动和停止中介服务器。
25. The stove fire is controlled through starting, running and stopping of the blower fan.
    通过风机的启动、运转和停止，控制了炉火。
26. And thank you for stopping me.
    感谢你及时制止了我。
27. They drive off stopping at a gas station.
    他们开车走了，在一个加油站停了下来。
28. In a duplicator, a control for starting and stopping the feed mechanism of the machine.
    复印机中，启动和停止供纸机构的一种控制器。
29. Betty, why are you stopping?
    贝蒂，你怎么停下了？
30. Nothing is stopping me from dancing with you tonight.
    今晚没什么能阻止我和你跳舞。

noun

1. the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch
   1. the violinist's stopping was excellent

2. fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members

   Synonym:    fillet